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\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] no more working
by Peter Münster 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hello, In version 2008.06.11, \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] is no more working. Here a test file: % engine=luatex \starttext test: oeps {\setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation]x: xx \bfd x: xx} oeps: test \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Luatex (actually Aleph) and Bidi_Mirrored chars in RTL mode
by Khaled Hosny 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Luatex does not mirror characters that has a Bidi_Mirrored property when the text direction is set to RTL (TRT in Aleph), according to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Mirroring, the different types of parenthesis that has Bidi_Mirrored property should be mirreored in RTL mode, but this isn't what I get. Is this a bug, feature, or am I missing some thing? Thanks, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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ConTeXt manual
by TeXWorld 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, Where can I find the lastest version of ConTeXt the manual. Mine is november 12, 2001 Maybe there are better manuals today. Can you tell me please where I can find them. Thank you.

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metapost question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi all, probably an easy question: for a presentation, I would like to have an area of my slide highlighted by placing a transparent grey layer on top of the slide and having one area of this layer completely transparent, a bit like this screenshot: http://debaday.debian.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/key3.jpg Any suggestions for the easiest way to achieve this effect? Thanks Thomas

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mtxrun
by Hans van der Meer 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Following the article "The luafication of TeX and Context" in the recent issue of the NTG-MAPS I tried the example given: mtxrun --script fonts and this should return the options list for this script. However, I get: 101 ~: mtxrun --script fonts cannot open : No such file or directory While otherwise a bare mtxrun returns info and thus was found as a runnable script: 102 ~: mtxrun MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | --script run an mtx script In my .bashrc I had the lua scripts in the path: 103 ~: echo $PATH ..:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/:.. And I had called luatools --generate to make the database plus I made certain the script has execute permissions: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua - rwxr-xr-x What is wrong or what I am doing wrong? Hans van der Meer

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Customizing layer stepping
by Wolfgang Schuster 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi, how can I can change the stepper for PDF-Layers, the code from the presentation module 60 use InvokeStepper and makes with every step only the next layer visible but I want to hide also a few layers in certain steps. In my example in the steps one to seven the layer for each step should be shown but in the eight step layer eight should be visible and layer seven should be deactivated at the same time. You could also see what I want also in the PDF file but it use fieldstacks and is very slow for more than 100 fields for each graphic. \usemodule[pre-60] \setupinteraction[state=start,click=on] \def\addstone#1#2#3% {\StartLocalStep \position(#1,#2){#3}% \StopLocalStep \ignorespaces} \starttext \framed [width=3cm, height=3cm, background=invoke, offset=overlay] {\setuppositioning[unit=mm,factor=5,xoffset=-2.5cm,yoffset=-2.5cm] \startpositioning \addstone12X% show layer 1 \addstone42O% show layer 2 \addstone23X% show layer 3 \addstone33O% show layer 4 \addstone21X% show layer 5 \addstone31O% show layer 6 \addstone32X% show layer 7 \addstone22O% show layer 8, hide layer 7 \addstone00X% show layer 9 \stoppositioning} \stoptext Wolfgang

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French discussion about ConTeXt versus LaTeX
by Maurice Diamantini 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, There is a discussion about ConTeXt versus LaTeX on the french forum fr.comp.text.tex http://groups.google.com/group/fr.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/af37f7… If any french ConTeXt user can share its experiment and argumentation... -- Maurice

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Unusual TOC
by Maurício 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi, I'm typesetting a book where prose and verse alternate in chapters, i.e., you have one chapter of prose, one of verse, one of prose etc. I would like to generate a TOC for that book, but chapters have no name or numbers. I was told by the author that the usual thing to do is to take the first few words of each chapter and use those in the index. I know how to do that using a few small tricks, but I would like to know if there's a standard way to do that. Are you aware of any? Thanks, Maurício

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\startmode[*first]
by Peter Rolf 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

hi, just noticed that \startmode[*first] is ignored, if you use mtxrun. works ok with 'texexec --lua'. best wishes, peter

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TeXLive 2008
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hi all, Hans, Taco, this is kind of a continuation of the thread about installers etc. I'm currently test-driving TeXLive 2008 and was wondering if we could make it a bit easier for new users to just try out ConTeXt. The binaries reside in <tl2008-directory>/2008/bin/<arch>; the installer gives the choice to put symlinks in system directories. Would it make sense to place some ConTeXt symlinks into the bin directory? For Unixoid systems, I am thinking of these: mtxrun -> ../../../2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua luatools -> ../../../2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua and maybe place the stub "context" into this bin directory as well. I don't know how this would work for widnoze. I'm thinking of a potential casual user who has just installed TeXLive and should be able to simply run a "Hello World" document by typing "context myfile." Does that make sense? Thomas

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